Seminar Series 2013-2014

Unless noted otherwise, all seminars take place in Donald Bren Hall sixth floor conference room (DBH 6011) from 4 to 5 p.m.

For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.

Past Statistics Seminar Series:
2014-15
• 2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11

Date	Speaker	Title
October 3, 2013	Ori Rosen, U. of Texas, El Paso	Covariate Dependent Spectral Analysis of Multivariate Time Series with Application to Heart Rate Variability During Sleep Abstract
October 10, 2013	Adam Roy, Revision Optics	Statisticians are also Scientists: Experiences of a UCI Statistics Alumni Abstract
October 17, 2013	Jay Bartroff, USC	Sequential Tests of Multiple Hypotheses Controlling False Discovery Rates Abstract
October 24, 2013	Hyunyoung Choi, Pandora	Music Consumption and Listener Identity Abstract
October 31, 2013	Saharon Rosset, Tel Aviv University	Isotonic Modeling: Methodology and Applications Abstract
November 7, 2013	Fumitake Sakaori, Chuo University	Sports Statistics: Recent Advances and Some Applications Abstract
Nobember 14, 2013	Todd Alonzo, USC	Estimating Volume Under ROC Surface in Presence of Biased Sampling: Work in Progress Abstract
November 21, 2013	Lily Xu, UCSD	The Analysis of Biased Time-to-Event Data from Pregnancy Registries Abstract
December 5, 2013	Florin Vaida, UCSD	Mixed Effecs Models with Censored Response Abstract
January 16, 2014	Qing Zhou, UCLA	Monte Carlo Simulation for Lasso-Type Problems by Estimator Augmentation Abstract
January 23, 2014	Don Rubin, Harvard	Evaluating the Effect of Training on Wages in the Presence of Noncompliance, Nonemployment, and Missing Outcome Data Abstract
January 30, 2014	Juanjuan Fan, SDSU	Predicting Glaucoma Progression Using Decision Trees and Random Forest Abstract
February 6, 2014	Weng Kee Wang, UCLA	Using Animal Instincts to Find Efficient Experimental Designs Abstract
February 13, 2014	Jun Li, UCR	Comparing Species Assemblages Based on Mixture Models Abstract
February 20, 2014	Gulhan Bourget, CSUF	Mendelian Inheritance Transmission Disequilibrium Test with One Sibling Abstract
March 13, 2014	Robert Newcomb Lecture w/ Pete Meyer, Google	Measuring Ground Truth: Using Human Evaluation to Assess Ad Quality Abstract
March 20, 2014	Giovanni Motta, Columbia University	Robust Estimation of Time-Varying Correlations Abstract
April 7, 2014	Jeff Wu, Georgia Tech University	A Statistical View of Uncertainty Quantification: Interface Between Statistics and Applied Mathematics Abstract
April 10, 2014	Gary Rosner, Johns Hopkins University	Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Comparative Effectiveness Research Abstract
April 17, 2014	John Neuhaus, UCSF	Assessing Change with Longitudinal Data Abstract
April 24, 2014	Ron Christensen, University of New Mexico	Another Look at Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson and Bayes: Continuous Distributions Abstract
May 1, 2014	Dan Gillen, UCI	A Gaussian Process Model for Estimating Within-Subject Volatility in Indices of Protein-Energy Mannutrition Among End-Stage Renal Disease Patients Abstract
May 8, 2014	Jarek Harezlak, Indiana University	Regression Trees for Longitudinal Data (LongCART) and their Application in the Biomarker Neuroimaging Study Abstract
May 15, 2014	David Draper, UCSC	Topics in Bayesian Modeling: (1) Log Scores for Model Comparison and (2) a Bayesian Non-Parametric Look at the Frequentist and Bayesian Bootstraps Abstract
May 29, 2014	David DeGras, DePaul University/University of Oregon	A Hierarchical Model for Simultaneous Detection and Estimation in Multi-subject fMRI Studies Abstract
June 5, 2014	Hal Stern, UCI	A Statistical Approach to Detecting Patterns in Behavioral Event Sequences Abstract